Practical Uses Of Weather Forecasts
Washington reports that weather forecasts from the U S Weather Bureau have broad commercial value. Examples include umbrella stock planning aligned to precipitation charts, lamb purchase timing from long term weather data, roof design considering snow loads, and legal and insurance cases using weather records to prove or disprove claims.
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Washington
United States Weather Bureau
United States
Weather Bureau
Knickerbocker Theater
Utah
All Face and No Powder Club Formed by Jonesville Girls
Bar Face Powder Hillsdale Michigan report notes Jonesville high school girls form the All Face and No Powder club. Members ban powder puffs and lipsticks as they meet in Hillsdale area.
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Bar Face
Hillsdale
Mich
Jonesville
Tahiti Vanilla Boom Sparks Wealth and Change
Papeete, Tahiti sees a vanity of wealth as vanilla bean prices soar. Vanjailed Leeward islanders buy bicycles, cars, silk gowns, and hats, transforming the city’s streets and social life before returning to Raiatea and Bora Bora. The scene paints a temporary glitter, before routine island life resumes.
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Papeete
Tahiti
Society Islands
Paris
South Seas
Raiatea
Bora Agra
Daughter of Rasputin Visits Paris on Stage Dreams
Maria Gregorievna claims to be Rasputin’s daughter and a Petrograd resident who visited her father weekly. She recounts imprisonment after his death and a Siberian escape, hoping for a stage engagement as a talented dancer.
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Maria Gregorievna
Rasputin
Czarina
Russia
Paris
Petrograd
Siberia
Halstead Claims High Septuagenarian Share
Halstead Kansas near Hutchinson with about 1 200 people reports over forty residents older than seventy five, the oldest ninety three. Officials claim the town has the highest percentage of septuagenarians in the state.
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Hutchinson
Kans
Halstead
House Built of Mud 200 Years Ago in Philadelphia
A two story mud house at 822 Buttonwood Street has been condemned after inspection revealed older building methods using mud poured into wooden molds, similar to modern concrete techniques. Once a landmark to generations, it was merely seen by passersby as a long standing residence.
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Philadelphia
Buttonwood Street
High Temperature Effects on the Body
Department of Interior researchers at the Pittsburg Bureau of Mines and the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers studied heat and humidity effects in two controlled chambers. They found rest, 90F at 100 percent humidity limits, heavier men lose more weight but endure longer, ice water restores weight, pulse rate drives discomfort, and high heat with humidity impairs miners’ health.
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Washington
Department of Interior
Pittsburgh Experiment Station
Bureau of Mines
American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers
Cork Board
Japanese Wages 78 Cents Daily in Yen Figures
The home department reports average daily wages for Japanese laborers at 1.55 yen, about 78 cents in U.S. currency. Men average 1.78 yen, women 0.88 yen, with a standard workday of ten hours and twenty six minutes.
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Tokyo
Home Department
Ancient real estate and taxes echoed in Tut Ankh Amen talk
Prof. D. D. Luckenbill told a national real estate boards event that ancient real estate practices show enduring patterns. He cited Abraham overpaying for a burial plot and noted long mortgages and subsisting rents across ancient civilizations, drawing parallels to modern markets.
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Washington
Tut-Ankh-Amen
Abraham
D. D. Luckenbill
University of Chicago
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Luckenbill
Egypt
Greece
Rome
United States
Tut
Sarah
King Tut
The
Nile
Swamp Snake Found Far From Its Native Habitat
In Columbia South Carolina a University of South Carolina party led by Prof J D Carrington found an adolescent swamp snake Seminatrix pygea, previously known only from Florida. Carrington suggests the snake’s presence 360 miles north challenges range limits and may indicate overlooked populations across Florida Georgia and South Carolina.
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Columbia
S. C
J. D. Carrington
University of South Carolina
Florida
Carrington
Georgia
South Carolina
Alaska Wardens Endure 78 Below Zero On Arctic Trip
Fur warden Frank Dufresne and trail assistant Fay Delezene faced ten days of 62 to 78 degrees below zero on a trip north of the Arctic Circle. Dufresne notes that at 60 degrees below zero animal life ceases to move and burrows into the snow until warmth returns.
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Alaska
Anchorage
Frank Dufresne
Nome
Fay Delezene
Arctic Circle
Dufresne
Loneliness Kills Bugs Warns German Entomologist
Prof Wilhelm Goetsch reports loneliness shortens life for bees ants and other insects. He claims a bee dies within five days without companionship despite food. Ants deprived of work and friends also mope and perish, suggesting intentionality in death.
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Heidelberg
Germany
Wilhelm Goetsch
Professor Goetsch
Texas Great Exposition Planned Amid Broad Support
A Texas centennial exposition is planned with a 100 member committee led by Cato Sells of Dallas. Organizers aim to hold the event within three years and seek $30 to $35 million to fund a larger project than St Louis. The proposal envisions global participation and highlights Texas vast resources and independence since 1836.
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Bowie
Tex
Texas
Cato Sells
Dallas
Woodrow Wilson
Austin
St. Louis
Mexico
Lone Star
Committee of 100
Watchman Sells Napoleonic Flags as Souvenirs
A Paris guard at the Invalides was arrested on charges of clipping small, blood stained pieces from Napoleon's battle flags draped over the emperor's tomb and selling them to tourists for ten dollars each. Authorities believe two flags were entirely disposed of, with each sale involving a tiny square of the faded bunting.
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Paris
the Invalides
Playful Fireball Ravages Stansted Essex Streets
The Stansted Daily Chronicle correspondent describes a fireball event that damaged a tree trunk, destroyed road ground, ruptured a gas main causing two hours of fire, knocked a motorcyclist from his bike, blew apart a barbed wire fence, wrecked a house corner, shattered windows, and finally sank back into the ground.
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London
Stansted
Essex
Daily Chronicle
Rowland Norman
Walpole Farm
Ore Smuggling Virtually Stopped in Colorado Mines
Denver reports that strong enforcement of the Ore Buyers act, passed by Colorado in 1915, has nearly ended high grading. Licensed buyers must post a 5,000 bond and trace ore origins, reducing ore buyers from 32 to 7 and leading to prison sentences for several high graders. The crackdown inspires similar laws in other western states.
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Denver
Colorado
Secretary of State
Colorado Assembly
United States
Mine Owners’ Association
Broke in Argentina He Scrubs Way Home
Benjamin D. Short and his wife Alice K. Short arrived in New York after he joined a liner crew path to earn money. Short, 220 pounds, said he joined the voyage from Buenos Aires to help cover debts and settle his late parents estate, explaining he took to work at sea while Mrs Short ate her way up. He is a Standard Oil employee from Buenos Aires.
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New York
Benjamin D. Short
Jolly
Buenos Aires
Alice K. Short
Mr. Short
St. Louis
Bulgarian Swallows Carry Replies From India and Arabia
Two swallows returning from warm climates bore messages in leg wraps. Ivan Stefanoff, a village schoolteacher, found a note in French and a reply in English from Melani India dated Feb 18. An official in Haskovo received a romantic message from Medina Arabia attributed to Ghul Fatme.
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Sofia
Ivan Stefanoff
Bulgaria
Melani
India
Haskovo
Medina
Arabia
Mohammed
Ghul Fatme
Hassan Bey
Ships to Diesel Propulsion Under Deck Board Plan
The Shipping Board plans immediate conversion of an initial group of 12 cargo vessels to diesel propulsion. Experts have studied a months long program expected to cost 25 million dollars, authorized by Congress. President Coolidge signed the bill authorizing the expenditure, and the board prepared to adopt the engineers plan.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Congress
Coolifige
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